Thinking Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

We must preserve our right to think and differ.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do that which we think we cannot.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must do what we think we can't do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt